Boulder Fourmile Canyon fire update: DA Stan Garnett decides against criminal...
The Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder was extraordinarily destructive -- yet the volunteer firefighter whose fire pit likely launched the initial spark will not be charged with a crime. Tha...
View ArticleNewsCube, "semi-permanent" addition to 16th Street Mall, closes just weeks...
The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working to upgrade the quality and quantity of the sometimes sketchy vendors and carts on the 16th Street Mall, but its flashiest new pick-up to da...
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Mile High Marketplace not high enough for Cannabis...
You can find just about everything you want at Mile High Marketplace, that collection of kitsch north of downtown Denver at I-76 and 88th Avenue that's long been a local institution (and in...
View ArticleChris Bartkowicz, Highlands Ranch marijuana grower, not allowed to use...
High profile medical marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz won't be able to use the state's medical marijuana laws as part of his defense in federal court, a judge ruled yesterday. Bartkowicz...
View ArticleDenver School of Science & Tech gets $1 million from Oprah, but CEO sees much...
On Monday's Oprah, host Oprah Winfrey spotlighted the new documentary Waiting For "Superman", which examines charter schools and America's troubled public-education system. Along the way, ...
View ArticleWoody Paige's suicide-plan column best piece to date about Bronco Kenny...
We've often made sport of Denver Post and ESPN vet Woody Paige. But when he's not cobbling together forced riffs and calling them columns, he can be a moving writer. Think of his 2006 piec...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: Is Houston's Luis Scola, not Kevin Martin, on Nuggets'...
More dizzying twists in Carmelo Anthony trade rumors. This week, we've been told the New Jersey Nets are his choice, in a likely concession to his fame-addicted reality-TV-star wife La La ...
View ArticleDavid Rangel: $100,000 bond for teacher who says he didn't boink student but...
David Rangel, the third area teacher busted for alleged improper relations with students in four months, appeared in Weld County District Court yesterday, where bond was set at a whopping ...
View ArticleRichard Belzer, Law & Order SVU star, on why he sees medical marijuana is "a...
Richard Belzer, a TV mainstay thanks to the Law & Order franchise (he's currently a regular on Special Victims Unit), got his start as a standup comic. But don't expect lotsa chuckles at ...
View ArticleKen Buck tell you how to be his Buck Fuddy: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario
"Hi, I'm Ken Buck! As we move toward the general election, you Tea Party fuddy-duddies who are in a snit over my 'evolving positions' need to know that I still want want to have a politica...
View ArticleClear the Bench's Matt Arnold takes on Colorado Ethics Watch over "delayed"...
Today's entertainingly pissy political pissing match pits Clear the Bench Colorado's Matt Arnold, who wants to throw the bums off the state's supreme court, against Colorado Ethics Watch, ...
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary review: Higher Health Medical is on a higher plane
In "Mile Highs and Lows," Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer's coll...
View ArticleColorado Rockies aren't dead yet in NL West, but even Ubaldo Jimenez is on...
Want three Denver blog posts? Got 'em for you. Purple Row's Russ Oates has the sad task of recapping the Rockies' second loss to the Diamondbacks in a row. Eeesh. Colorado Pols notes tha...
View ArticleStan Garnett urges John Suthers to help MMJ grower Chris Bartkowicz: That's...
Tonight, several medical marijuana attorneys host a fundraiser for Boulder DA Stan Garnett, who's challenging Attorney General/MMJ-law hater John Suthers. Garnett's now publicly criticizin...
View ArticleNicholas Lorenzo's sentence a warning to guys thinking of beating meat behind...
Back in February, Nicholas Lorenzo was accused of stroking his meat while behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway. Today, he was reportedly sentenced to five years probation, 48 hour...
View ArticleHolly Square Shopping Center: Basketball hoops rise from the ashes
As recounted in the July feature "Up from the Ashes," northeast Park Hill residents are hoping the site of Holly Square Shopping Center is ready to turn the corner after years of drug deal...
View ArticleLouis Hampers: No bail yet for controversial doc charged with writing fake...
Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children's Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 fake prescriptions, appeared for the first time in a Colorado court today after being arrested in Virginia on ...
View ArticleAndrea Merida: Behind the scenes with Denver Public Schools' controversial...
Our latest feature story, "Andrea Merida's Classroom Behavior Has Earned Her a Seat Apart on the Denver School Board," profiles Merida, the controversial DPS board member who, in ten mont...
View ArticleMeth house fixer-upper in Northglenn just needs a little TLC -- and a...
When methheads start cooking their own product, they're rarely as fastidious as Walt and Jesse in Breaking Bad. The cost of decontaminating a former lab can run into tens of thousands of ...
View ArticleConfluence Park and other musings on water -- for free! No $300,000 for you,...
Scott McInnis collected $300,000 for his "Musings on Water," but this one is free. Denver may be a landlocked city, but a river still runs through it -- and the transformation of the South ...
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